Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Indian Coffee House in Guruvayur

Indian Coffee House

It is the Indian Coffee House and the rate list displayed on a board that endears many to come here. I checked out the rate that went probably like this:
Hot coffee 8, set coffee 15, tea 7, milk water 10,  ice cream 20, ghee masala dosa 30, ghee dosa 20, veg cutlet 10 and veg biriyani 40 among others.

Registered in my mind i head to a table that has one occupant. Hailing from Trissur, he is having a veg cutlet and open to the idea of a conversation. It steers towards the elephants in Guruvayur Devaswom Elephant Sanctuary. There are 63 - in the sanctuary which i visit later i am told there are 64 in all - elephants and all are owned by Guruvayur Devaswom. THis gentleman does not digress much from Guruvayur as he begins to elaborate on his monthly visit to the temple town. Set with two flats in the town, he has been visiting quite often as one of them had been lying vacant for long. Probably he had been able to find a tenant this time round.

Coming again to elephants and the sanctuary he says this is one of its kind in the country as this very number can't be found anywhere else. Against the 63-odd owned by Guruvayur Devaswom there are elephants owned by individuals and he belonged to that tribe. The elephant owned by him has been deployed for festival activities in Palakkad. I don't miss an opportunity to stress that he is a blessed soul as he gets an opportunity to visit Guruvayur quite often. As i am almost through with my meals he departs by telling me that his name is Viju.

Against this conversation in a coffee house, a day later in North Inner Ring Road on East Nada Guruvayur i saw one gentleman immersed in a cell conversation. His immersion looked deep as he cared little about traffic movement while crossing the road. From his appearance one could safely gauge that he was tense and getting more bouts of the same as he dig deeper into a cell bell.

Indian Coffee House i would relish for bournvita, meals and cutlets i had and the staff that looked to be caring and comprehensively clad. Hope more such ICH come up and as i was told by one customer that this ICH was the original beauty. 

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